Beyond this, you also can publish run-time, deployed composites into Oracle Enterprise Repository. As such, Oracle Enterprise Repository can provide visibility and coverage across the span of the SOA design-time and run-time lifecycles.

Solution Packs

Solution packs are an Oracle Enterprise Repository mechanism used to deliver content in bulk. The prebuilt AIA SOA portfolio is shipped as a solution pack. You can import the solution pack into your on-premise Oracle Enterprise Repository instances to view, access, and evaluate the AIA SOA portfolio.

The importing of an AIA solution pack to Oracle Enterprise Repository is a task that is independent of the installation of AIA. If you intend to use Oracle Enterprise Repository in your enterprise, you can import an AIA solution pack before or after your AIA installation. In fact, you can even import an AIA solution pack without purchasing or installing AIA.

While the AIA solution pack import is in progress, ensure that no other activities occur on the target Oracle Enterprise Repository instance.

Once AIA design-time artifacts and deployed composites have been published into Oracle Enterprise Repository, your enterprise can search for, browse, and view them in Oracle Enterprise Repository. By keeping Oracle Enterprise Repository synchronized with your AIA ecosystem, you ensure that it can serve as the system of record for your business services and their topologies.

Potential users of Oracle Enterprise Repository as a SOA repository are active across the span of the SOA development lifecycle and include functional and business analysts, architects, developers, system integrators, and system administrators.

For example, a business analyst working on requirements for building a particular business process can use Oracle Enterprise Repository to determine which business capabilities are available in a particular integration area and then determine which additional capabilities may need to be built. The capabilities are delivered in the form of application-independent services and objects.

Additionally, solution architects can use Oracle Enterprise Repository during their functional analysis (using Project Lifecycle Workbench) to evaluate the potential for service reuse.

Click Edit to add a new AIA artifact store. The artifact store must be named AIA.

You must manually add this artifact store when setting up the Oracle Enterprise Repository for the first time.

In the Create a new Artifact Store dialog box, as shown in Figure 10-1, define the Hostname value for the AIA artifact store, which is the <host>:<port> value for the AIA web server installation. Define the Path value as /AIA/faces.

Together, the Hostname and Path values express the AIA location at which EBO and EBM HTML documentation can be accessed via the HTTP protocol.